Basson and Colyn win first South African round of UCI Gravel World Series

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Swartberg 100 gravel race, the second round of the UCI Gravel World Series in 2023 on Saturday April 29(Image credit: Supplied by Swartberg 100 Gran Fondo)

Gustav Basson (Team DMS) and Cathryn Colyn (Rocacorba Collective) have taken out the men’s and women’s victories at the first South African round of the UCI Gravel World Series, the Swartberg 100.

Basson, who raced on the road with Continental team ProTouch the last three seasons, sprinted over the line ahead of Dan Loubser to take the victory in the men’s category with a time of 5:25:40 while Basson’s teammate, Kent Main, crossed less than a minute later to take third. In the women’s category Colyn, who be lining up for the Life Time Grand Prix series this year, had a clear margin as she crossed the line with a time of 5:54:15, beating her nearest rival Theresa Rindler Bachl by around 18 minutes. Anneke Lund, a little more than a minute further back, took third.

“The race got started at the first real climb at 24km,” said Colyn in a post on Instagram after taking her first win of the season and first UCI win. “ I knew I had to make sure that I got into one of the front groups over this climb, going up here, I don’t know if it was the cold or what but boy oh boy it was damn hard. It was the hardest part of the day for me. From there I was able to establish a gap on the other women.

The series has expanded to 17 events in 2023, with Swartberg among the seven new additions. It is the second round of racing, with Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team Gravel Squad) and Carolin Schiff (Canyon-CLLCTV) taking victory at the opening La Indomable race in Spain. This weekend Swartberg marked the first day of racing in a double-header, with the Gravel Fondo Limburg being held in the Netherlands on Sunday.

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Men top 10
Position	Rider	Time
1	Gustav Basson	05:25:40
2	Dan Loubser	5:25:41
3	Kent Main	5:26:30
4	Dusty Day	5:28:23
5	Gert Heyns	5:29:49
6	Jaden Terlouw	5:31:15
7	Erick Heyns	5:31:15
8	Matthew Keyser	5:35:10
9	Alex Pavlov	5:35:48
10	Matthys Beukes	5:36:24

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Women top 10
Position	Rider	Time
1	Catherine Colyn	05:54:15
2	Theresa Rindler Bachl	06:12:17
3	Anneke Lund	06:13:23
4	Courteney Webb	06:22:06
5	Juanita Mackenzie	06:34:44
6	Layla Schwellnus	06:46:06
7	Bianca Silberbauer	06:48:42
8	Lasquéve Raubenheimer	06:53:31
9	Rebecca Van Huyssteen	06:54:18
10	Kerri Anderson	06:54:21

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